{"id":21165,"date":"2019-11-18T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/politics-industry-backlash-stall-white-house-ban-on-flavored-vaping-products\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T22:13:00","slug":"politics-industry-backlash-stall-white-house-ban-on-flavored-vaping-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/politics-industry-backlash-stall-white-house-ban-on-flavored-vaping-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics, Industry Backlash Stall White House Ban On Flavored Vaping Products"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Attendees hold “We Vape, We Vote” signs ahead of a Trump rally last month in Dallas. The politics surrounding vaping and industry pushback against regulation appear to have derailed the Trump administration’s plan to ban the sales of many vaping products.<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration’s plan to ban most flavored vaping products has stalled out, at least for the moment.<\/p>\n

Two months ago, President Trump announced he was pursuing the new policy to put a dent in the youth vaping epidemic. The plan was supposed to have been unveiled in a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n

But industry pushback and the politics of vaping appear to have derailed that process.<\/p>\n

On Sept. 11, when the president announced that <\/strong>he was endorsing a Food and Drug Administration proposal<\/a> to ban those products, he acknowledged there were economic consequences.<\/p>\n

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“Vaping has become a very big business as I understand it. A giant business in a very short period of time,” he told reporters at the White House. “But we can’t allow people to get sick and we can’t have our youth to be so affected.”<\/p>\n

The policy proposal hit just as health officials were investigating lung injuries and deaths among people who vaped. Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now say that’s primarily from vaping dubious marijuana products.<\/p>\n

But Paul Billings, national senior vice president of public policy at the American Lung Association, says the organization was also focused on the role that flavored e-cigarettes played in teen nicotine addiction.<\/p>\n